NJ Senate ad: Sure, Booker’s great on Meet the Press, but what about in Newark?

posted at 10:01 pm on July 22, 2013 by Mary Katharine Ham

A Super PAC playing in the New Jersey Senate race, American Commitment Action Fund, introduces you to a couple folks in the city of which Cory Booker is actually mayor, who have some opinions about him and the job he’s done there. Contrary to popular belief, Booker’s not just a fixture on national campaigns and Sunday shows.

I’m generally a fan of Booker, as Democrats go, for his occasionally unorthodox views on gun owners or private equity. His image as a man of action is quite popular, but in a Senate race, he will have to wrestle with some of the less sanguine parts of his record and the city of Newark’s progress under his watch.

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The thing I never understood about Booker was how he was going to move up. How to pretend Newark doesn’t exist?

Now, he didn’t cause the problems in Newark, they’ve been brewing for more than half a century at the least. But he’s been part of it, and he hasn’t solved any of it, and as we all know: if you’re not part of the solution . . .

Booker called out the obama campaign for its gross distortions of Romney’s record, then folded like a cheap chair as soon as the party leaned on him. Think about that before placing any trust in him or any other democrat.

This is the Left’s “keen talent”: saying grandiose things grandly, “sounding” significant with high-pitched, high-toned glory, while doing none of it that way and, indeed, instead usually doing quite the opposite.

It’s like the Obamacare mess. Sold and packaged as something Big and Golden and continued to be preached as such by the Left while, inside, it’s rotten and festered, and worse, Left knows it but still carries on with the Big and Golden tales about it.

Look at the Left’s “fruit”: they sell it as priceless, rarified and irreplaceable while what it actually is, after you buy it and get it home, is rotten.

Booker called out the obama campaign for its gross distortions of Romney’s record, then folded like a cheap chair as soon as the party leaned on him. Think about that before placing any trust in him or any other democrat.

So who are the Republicans running for Senate? If part of Newark and the surrounding cities vote against Booker, that plus the middle-class ‘burbs might win the Senate seat for a Republican, if we had the right candidate.